I Just Learned What The Inside Of A Malteser Is Really Made Of, And It's The Last Thing I'd Guess

First, came the news that the jam in a Jammie Dodger is not, in fact, raspberry or strawberry. 

Now, another blow to my sense of reality: it turns out the middle of Maltesers, which I always thought was its own special category of food, isn’t at all what I reckoned. 

The chocolate-coated delights, which were invented in 1936 and first marketed as “energy balls,” do of course contain their titular malt (a partially germinated and then dried grain; barley in this case). 

But that’s not incorporated into...